More Birds
There was a bit of excitement at our bird feeder this morning. We got a brief visit from some long-tailed tits and coal tits. We’d never seen these birds before and one day they arrived, and were gone by the…
Octopus Christmas
Our kitchen table was turned into a frenzy of scientific activity over the Christmas break as resident molecular biology super-guru Jan and her able assistant (me) prepared nearly 700 pieces of octopus for DNA extraction. Here we are hard at…
Morocco
Lured by extremely cheap flights and the prospect of some sun in the middle of the British winter we headed out for a trip to Morocco last week. We flew into Marakesh and actually spent most of our time in…
Seven Sisters
We’re just back from a camping weekend down on the south coast of England. We went down on saturday when it was absolutely pouring with rain and it didn’t bode well for a great weekend. I’d booked a pitch for…
Catch up
It’s been way way waaaay too long since I’ve last put anything up here .. so this one is a bit of mix of things that’s been happening. Well first of all let me introduce you to one of the…
Russia
Perhaps the most anticipated photos ever … finally here are the long promised russia photos!! :)! Despite being a hyper capitalist centre of high fashion and conspicuous wealth, St Petersburg airport didn’t fail to give tourists a little taste of…
British waterfalls and beaches
Last weekend we went up to Durham to visit Rob … to update him on our latest tomato experiments. While we were there we went on two awesome walks. The first one was through some nice hill country. Rob guided…
Kayak From Ely to Waterbeach
It’s been a while since we’ve put up any new pics. Sadly we had a bit of a website implosion … I’d like to pretend it was just because we were so popular that our server was overloaded … but…
Year 2
Summer is coming and our allotment is starting to get fired up again. We are a little bit slower than last year I think, but because we’ve learned which things work and which don’t we are hoping to have a…
Tulips
Two weeks ago we went down to our allotment for the first time in a while .. and discovered that our tulips had come out. They are such massive, bold flowers .. you can see why people like them.